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Undergraduate Intern, Legal Croydon, England

Chanel

Full Time Croydon, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today

Job description

Location: Equal time to be spent between the CHANEL Offices in London and Croydon (4 and half months at each location)

Title: Legal intern

Contract: Fixed term

Chanel:

At CHANEL, our values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work.

Legal@Chanel:

In the Legal Department, our ambition is to always be an interesting, welcoming and diverse workplace for the best talents and to allow them to grow, with a strong focus on legal service delivery for the Company. Our values reflect such ambition: excellence, integrity, agility, resilience, generosity, curiosity & collaboration.

Your role in Legal@Chanel:

We are currently seeking an Intern to join Chanel UK’s Legal Team on a fixed term 9 month contract (with the possibility to extend). The role will be in the UK Intellectual Property Team.

The successful candidate will support the legal teams across all legal areas with a primary focus on IP Enforcement. Working closely with the Legal Teams and using the legal skills you have developed during your law degree this position will allow you to expand your legal knowledge as well develop your drafting and legal research skills in a dynamic in-house environment.

Leveraging your unique skills and experience will enable you to support primarily in the following areas of expertise:

UK Intellectual Property Team

Administration, presentations and reports: you will assist the Team with compiling any ad hoc statistics, reports, analyses (using Excel, Word, Power BI) and also prepare PowerPoint presentations. You will also be responsible for general administration and data management.

Grey market monitoring: you will be responsible for researching and monitoring websites selling genuine grey market Chanel fragrance and beauty products and making test purchases. Once received, you will log the test purchase on an internal platform and be responsible for sending this to Paris for tracing.

Monitoring and enforcing: using key word searches, you will monitor websites and social media platforms for the sale of counterfeit and infringing goods and the mis-use of any Chanel trade marks. You shall research the individuals/companies related to those websites / profiles so that the team can follow up and take enforcement action.

Evidence: you will collate and prepare evidence annexes for counterfeit, infringement and opposition cases.

Use and reputation: you will save and tag recent advertising campaigns and shall review each Fashion Collection and tag all uses of Chanel trade marks.

Legal research: you shall prepare summarised notes on recent trade mark and design cases and shall assist in preparing any submissions to IP related consultations and lobbying submissions.

Basic formalities work :you shall assist the Team with domain name management (e.g checking availability/costs and instructing new registrations)

Drafting: cease and desist letters, responses to requests for consent.

You are energised by…

Building relationships at all levels, working in a highly collaborative and international environment with a complex structure
Expanding your knowledge into intellectual property, compliance and data privacy
Personal and professional development
Providing a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

What you can bring to the team…

Energy and enthusiasm
Ability to prioritise, work to tight deadlines and exercise efficient time management
Ability to take the initiative. You will be self-motivated, with an ability to operate both autonomously and within a team.
A professional attitude
Reliable, supportive, pragmatic and adaptable approach to work.
Work effectively and efficiently, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate

What Chanel can offer you

Being part of a dynamic and collaborative Legal community;
Exposure to the workings of an integrated in-house legal department with the opportunity to learn and develop drafting, legal and commercial skills.

You will:

Have a law degree or working towards completing a law degree
Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of, or at least an interest in, trade mark protection/anti-counterfeiting law and/or practice (e.g. studied a relevant IP module at undergraduate level; relevant essay prize winner; research or dissertation; previous work or other study experience).
Ideally had work experience working in a legal environment either in private practice or in-house
Strong IT skills with experience in presenting data and information efficiently and effectively in Excel, Word and PowerPoint

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures encourages personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complimentarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.

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